GOP Presidential hopeful from Michigan, Thaddeus McCotter, continues his under-appreciated guitar-slinging meet-the-people tour at the New Hampshire Young Republican Lobster Bake and Straw Poll last weekend. There can be no doubt the man’s dedicated.
McCotter also extends the tradition of GOP men fond of milchtoasty interpretations of classic rock tunes.
The Young Republicans of New Hampshire could do with a little less melted butter on those lobsters. Whoa, boys and girls!
Readers may have noticed DD blog went wonk yesterday afternoon.
WordPress’s MySQL database handling on Yahoo is not particularly robust.
In fact, it’s a regular effort to keep the database from going bad. It’s just a matter of how bad things go and when the software decides to warn you by — soonest, or latest — by crashing.
Short story, the “post” table was corrupted, starting sometime earlier in the week. But it didn’t crash hard until Friday after the last Ted Nugent post.
This set off an immediate scramble to repair it, a task the administrative tools — which regularly work — politely declined to do.
So an emergency rollback restore from back-up was done. And that took the blog back to the 13th. Which isn’t a particularly big loss of data.
However, it’s annoying. And during the process of repairing it I was informed, rather helpfully — I might add, by Yahoo tech support that it’s not an uncommon problem with WordPress installations here. Which is why they have a good procedure to help people get back up off the ground.
Which surprised the heck at out of me. Because nothing like it was in place back when I first started using WordPress here and the blog editor crashed and couldn’t be revived, forcing a migration back to Blogger.
American innovation at its best. Web applications for small business.
T-shirt made in el Salvador or China or somewhere else, maybe Vietnam, just not here.
“Cairo (the Seal Team 6 dog) for Prez,” another in the Dick Destiny T-shirt fashion line called “Great and funny T-shirts no one will have the nerve to wear.”
“Mr. Bean” actor Rowan Atkinson, whose character is known for hapless driving in the television shows and films, left a hospital Friday after being treated for minor injuries following a sports car [worth 1 mil] crash in southern England. — AP
I liked the movie. Like Jerry Lewis with no talking or “Laaaaaa-deeeeee!”
Jonathan May-Bowles, the activist-comedian who tried to hit Rupert Murdoch with a shaving-cream pie, has received a six-week jail sentence, Sky News reports …
May-Bowles, 26, wass blocked from landing his pie punch by, among others, Murdoch’s wife, Wendi, who jumped up from behind her husband and slapped the attacker.
Just before launching his attack on Murdoch, he used Twitter to announce: “It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before #splat.”
If “better things” include: He got beat by a girl. That was Jonnie Pantywaist.
Chinese users of YouTube were drawn to things that mentioned Wendi Deng, Rupert Murdoch’s wife, nemesis of Brit “comedian” Jonnie Marbles.
So, on a lark I decided to see how the lyrics translated using Google. The second copy is the result pasted back into the translation service, for comparative purpose with the original. Which you can hear.
This is the story of Jonnie Pantywaist, he really messed up
He prepared a shaving cream pie, he tried to throw it away
Beat a girl, it was Jonnie Pantywaist (Oof, not quite.)
Can not even play for the elderly, the girl stopped him cold
This is Jonnie Pantywaist, which is Jonnie Pantywaist
Jonnie really screw up the news, he completely messed up
He was ready to twitter tweet
But the police took him to the shitter right
Can not even play for the elderly, the girl stopped him cold
Made us feel that the British are cowards, we feel that the British are cowards
Hear the big story Jonnie Pantywaist
Shaving cream pie he really ace, it ended up back in his face
Jonnie Pantywaist have a plan, but he is a clumsy man
He beat by a girl
This is Jonnie Pantywaist, which is Jonnie Pantywaist
Foolish news item — no link — on the Kingdom of iSteve having more cash on hand than the US Treasury affords me opportunity to tell my favorite hate-on-iKit story.
The genius of iSteve is partially in the offshore manufacturing of a trinket that destroyed the US recording industry. But that was only trivial business.
The real majesty in innovation, observed up close, was in how the iTrinket induced the drummer in DD band (he’s older than me) to throw away all his perfectly good vinyl and start freeloading the same stuff, except in lower fidelity, off Limewire until they closed that down. (This, a compulsion implanted in hundreds of millions of others.)
The sheer brilliance of this was squared by the observation that he uses iTrinkets as jukebox front ends for an expensive high living room stereo set which plays the music at much lower fidelity than the recordings he used to have in his vinyl record collection.
Apparently he can’t hear the difference. But I can. What was warm and inviting has an ever present patina of coldness attached to it now.
Yesterday, I smilingly suffered through some said-to-be-famous nerd playing Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean on a ukulele, delivered through this iKit stereo. It was so excruciating and annoyingly arch, I wanted to scream. But I bit the tongue. It had sold hundreds of thousands of copies through the iStore, I was informed. Or maybe I just dreamed that it had made that much and, instead, it had just been freeloaded from Limewire or some other pirate site before they were censured.
iKing, as I’ve written before, is perfectly positioned as mass artisan manufacturing for the future world plutocracy. It has all its stuff made by Chinese labor, material things whose primary value is that of status symbol baubles among lower upper class shoeshiners to the plutocrats.
The plutocrats, I’m guessing, still buy expensive tube amplifier sound systems. Or maybe not.
iKing, mass maker of phones which will run more apps than there are people in Pasadena. And at least ten of them involve putting iKit in your mouth or pretending it’s something that it isn’t which you haven’t the skill to actually use.
Ah, kids, I remember reading many years ago how iSteve developed the vaccination which granted immunity to smallpox … Wait, whadda you mean …
